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October 12, 2009

Beer Pioneers Lunch

Just back from a Baltimore Beer Week lunch at Bertha's featuring Maryland's pioneer craft brewers.

Great food, bangers, kraut and mashers with gravy. Interesting dialog as well as Jim Lutz of Wild Goose, Craig Stuart-Paul of Oxford Brewing, Hugh Sisson of Clipper City and Tony Norris of Bertha's told tales from the early days of craft brewing.

All the brewers said that if they had to repeat the experiment, they would welcome more money and fewer investors.

They also said that between the brewpubs that make 2,000 barrels of beer a year and bigger breweries that make upwards of 10,000 barrels there is much uneven territory. In other words much bad beer.

You agree? Is that where the bad beer is , in the middle?

1995 photo of Jim Lutz at Wild Goose then located in Cambridge, Md, by The Sun's Lloyd Fox

Posted by Rob Kasper at 2:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Definitely a good time yesterday, Rob. I guess I agree with them as far as where the "good" beer lies. Their comments also added that the quality control levels under 2000 barrels are in place because you oversee everything and over 10,000 you are more apt to have quality control personnel in place, There's still great beer made by the tweener breweries but trying to balance the production demands while meeting budgetary constraints is where the problems can arise.

Posted by: Dominic Cantalupo | October 13, 2009 9:47 AM

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About Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper, a features columnist, has been writing about beer for 20 years, and he remembers when Anchor Christmas and Noche Buena were about the only beers at a holiday tasting and Sisson’s was the only brewpub in Baltimore. A collection of his columns, "Raising Kids and Tomatoes, Amusing Tales and Appetizing Recipes," was published in 1998. He lives with his wife, Judith, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in a downtown Baltimore rowhouse. They have two grown sons, who come home from time to time and drink their father’s beer.
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